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Peace-Filled Friday!

I came across this journal page that I did while participating in my class with Mandy Thompson this past spring.  I was having a REALLY bad experience with some things going on at work.  I was having to deal with a situation that I wanted no part of and some of the...

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Another Online Class! Yay!

I signed up for Traci Bautista's Printmaking Unleashed LIVE which opened on September 1, 2014. I have taken several classes from Traci--both in person and online--and I always learn a lot of techniques and tricks that I can use in my style of art.  She has a very...

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Energy, Power and Strength

Here is another journal page from my art journaling class with Mandy Thompson:This particular week we were working with "fancying-up" our hand lettering.  I'll be the first to admit that my handwriting is not anything particularly fancy or exciting but I did try to do...

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Found Poetry

One of the activities that we did as a journaling prompt during my local art journaling class with Mandy Thompson was "find" a poem in some random text.  Mandy handed out some pages from an old book from which she had very randomly torn pages.  It was our job to...

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Watercolor Madness

One of the mediums in which I've taken an interest lately is watercolor.  Everyone has an opinion about it.  Most people agree both that it is a lovely medium but that it is also one of the most difficult because it is one of the most unforgiving.  Also, you have to...

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Local Journaling Class

I signed up for a local art journaling class that I discovered by accident while visiting a local pottery painting shop for a birthday party.  I thought it would be nice to get to know some of the other local artists that take part in one of my favorite activities so...

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